ASRock X570 PG Velocita
ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero - very small update
This is how "smart" PR department promotion looks like
Lot of videos are now made such way, invent fake problem or blow out of proportions small one and try to push narrative you want later.
A520 chipset (in reality it is same chip as B550 but with few switches burned by laser)
ASUS and Asrock decided not to turn off 1st and 2nd gen processors support (read 1700-2700) for B550.
Good, good.
Present prices are abnormal
X570 are mostly cheaper
You can get top condition used Threadripped motherboard for less (with 10gb lan and such).
A520 is horrible defective child
ASRock boards
All B550 boards prices
MSI
Gigabyte
Asus
B550 asus board prices and configs
Note how marketing try to sell you first 2.5Gbit board, then 5gbit and next 10Gbit. Morons.
Also note that Intel 2.5Gbit chipset has severe bugs and current revision can't work at 2.5Gbit with half of the routers (hardware issue!).
Motherboards
MSI MPG B550 Gaming Carbon WIFI
ASUS ROG STRIX B550-E
AORUS B550 Aorus Master
ASROCK B550 Taichi
Biostar B550 GTQ
B550 slides
This one is quite strange as Zen 2 perfectly works on B350 or X370 boards.
Soyo cheap B550 board
First boards info can be released on May with boards available in June-July.
It is expected that B550 will be essentially B450 (and it is essentially B350) with minimal changes, just includes PCIe 4.0 on the direct CPU lines (GPU slot and first M.2 slot).
Actually any B450 board can do this, but AMD ordered to shut down parts of BIOS that allowed such.
Criminals.
AsRock Board
On B550 chipset
Thanks to huge x570 boards margins and same thing with new HEDT board, AsRock income increased 31% YoY. Second half income jumped 35%, and profits more than doubled at 110%.
They are ripping you.
B550 chipsets situation
AMD ordered ASMedia and MB makers not to release B550 motherboards to keep AM4 boards prices high.
B550 also will be almost 100% copy of old B450 (that is effectively B350), only few new USB controllers and such will be added.
All PCIe 4.0 support will come from CPU and will concern M.2 slot and one PCIe x16 slot (and already had been available in some old BIOS for B450 boards, but AMD asked to remove it).
Situation with AMD chipsets is absolutely horrible, and this includes even latest Threadripper chipset (that is remarked x570).
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